Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Washington
Intends Russia’s Demise

Comment by Don Hank:Most conservative Americans are
double minded. We call that cognitive dissonance. On the one hand they
understand to some extent that the NWO is evil and that its spirit has imbued
Washington.

But at the same time, they see Russia as even more
evil, not because they see any evidence of evil in its actions but because

1. They have long been mesmerized to regard war
as sacred, something we wage because it is who we are. Freedom is not free,
therefore we MUST kill people any time our government says we should. Invasion
is as American as apple pie. But at the same time we often catch a glimpse of
the government as our enemy. Where is reason?

2. They have been taught from their infancy that
Russia is bad. NOT the Soviet Union, not communism, but Russia. In fact these
same people with their blinders on 24-7 can plainly see an America becoming
more and more communist every day, but for them there is comfort in that this
is OUR communism. Where is reason?

3. They have seen Rocky and Rocky II and similar films
depicting Russia as beady eyed monsters and part of their consciousness has
been completely taken over by this Hollywood image. The NWO, which demands
allegiance to American hegemony, exploits this infantile mental and emotional
deficiency to the hilt, suggesting that international law is only written for
others, not for us. Thus, what we did in Kosovo was righteous, but when Russia
does the same thing in Crimea, it is evil. Where is reason?

Law professionals have a saying: You can’t have it
both ways.

What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
Lady Justice is blindfolded. All true enough, but does not apply to Russia.
Fortunately, American conservatives are dealing with a campus radical in
Washington and they are vaguely aware of it. If this president were a self
proclaimed ‘conservative’ many of these same people who doubt US foreign policy
would support any war under any circumstances, just or unjust, and would be
tranquil in their consciences. McCain could lead us into war. Romney could lead
us into war. Obama? Not as likely. Seen from that angle, a radical leftist
president has his merits.

God has a funny way of working. These are the best of
times and the worst of times.

And if the public ever wakes up, the NWO could be put
to rout once and for all.

Unless, perhaps, it is perceived as the AMERICAN
New World Order or the AMERICAN evil.

Don Hank

Washington Intends Russia’s Demise

By Paul Craig Roberts

Washington has
no intention of allowing the crisis in Ukraine to be resolved. Having failed to
seize the country and evict Russia from its Black Sea naval base, Washington
sees new opportunities in the crisis.

One is to
restart the Cold War by forcing the Russian government to occupy the
Russian-speaking areas of present day Ukraine where protesters are objecting to
the stooge anti-Russian government installed in Kiev by the American coup.
These areas of Ukraine are former constituent parts of Russia herself. They
were attached to Ukraine by Soviet leaders in the 20th century when both
Ukraine and Russia were part of the same country, the USSR.

Essentially, the
protesters have established independent governments in the cities. The police
and military units sent to suppress the protesters, called “terrorists” in the
American fashion, for the most part have until now defected to the protesters.

With Obama’s
incompetent White House and State Department having botched Washington’s
takeover of Ukraine, Washington has been at work shifting the blame to Russia.
According to Washington and its presstitute media, the protests are orchestrated
by the Russian government and have no sincere basis. If Russia sends in
military units to protect the Russian citizens in the former Russian
territories, the act will be used by Washington to confirm Washington’s
propaganda of a Russian invasion (as in the case of Georgia), and Russia will
be further demonized.

The Russian
government is in a predicament. Moscow does not want financial responsibility
for these territories but cannot stand aside and permit Russians to be put down
by force. The Russian government has attempted to keep Ukraine intact, relying
on the forthcoming elections in Ukraine to bring to office more realistic
leaders than the stooges installed by Washington.

However,
Washington does not want an election that might replace its stooges and return
to cooperating with Russia to resolve the situation. There is a good chance
that Washington will tell its stooges in Kiev to declare that the crisis
brought to Ukraine by Russia prevents an election. Washington’s NATO puppet
states would back up this claim.

It is almost
certain that despite the Russian government’s hopes, the Russian government is
faced with the continuation of both the crisis and the Washington puppet
government in Ukraine.

On May 1
Washington’s former ambassador to Russia, now NATO’s “second-in-command” but
the person who, being American, calls the shots, has declared Russia to no
longer be a partner but an enemy. The American, Alexander Vershbow, told
journalists that NATO has given up on “drawing Moscow closer” and soon will
deploy a large number of combat forces in Eastern Europe. Vershbow called this
aggressive policy deployment of “defensive assets to the region.”

In other words,
here we have again the lie that the Russian government is going to forget all
about its difficulties in Ukraine and launch attacks on Poland, the Baltic
States, Romania., Moldova, and on the central Asian states of Georgia, Armenia,
and Azerbaijan. The dissembler Vershbow wants to modernize the militaries of
these American puppet states and “seize the opportunity to create the reality
on the ground by accepting membership of aspirant countries into NATO.”

What Vershbow
has told the Russian government is that you just keep on relying on Western
good will and reasonableness while we set up sufficient military forces to
prevent Russia from coming to the aid of its oppressed citizens in Ukraine. Our
demonization of Russia is working. It has made you hesitant to act during the
short period when you could preempt us and seize your former territories. By
waiting you give us time to mass forces on your borders from the Baltic Sea to
Central Asia. That will distract you and keep you from the Ukraine. The
oppression we will inflict on your Russians in Ukraine will discredit you, and
the NGOs we finance in the Russian Federation will appeal to nationalist
sentiments and overthrow your government for failing to come to the aid of
Russians and failing to protect Russia’s strategic interests.

Washington is
licking its chops, seeing an opportunity to gain Russia as a puppet state.

Will Putin sit
there with his hopes awaiting the West’s good will to work out a solution while
Washington attempts to engineer his fall?

The time is
approaching when Russia will either have to act to terminate the crisis or
accept an ongoing crisis and distraction in its backyard. Kiev has launched
military airstrikes on protesters in Slavyansk. On May 2 Russian government
spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Kiev’s resort to violence had destroyed the
hope for the Geneva agreement on de-escalating the crisis. Yet, the Russian
government spokesman again expressed the hope of the Russian government that
European governments and Washington will put a stop to the military strikes and
pressure the Kiev government to accommodate the protesters in a way that keeps
Ukraine together and restores friendly relations with Russia.

This is a false
hope. It assumes that the Wolfowitz doctrine is just words, but it is not. The
Wolfowitz doctrine is the basis of US policy toward Russia (and China). The
doctrine regards any power sufficiently strong to remain independent of
Washington’s influence to be “hostile.” The doctrine states:

“Our first
objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the
territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the
order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant
consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we
endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources
would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.”

The Wolfowitz
doctrine justifies Washington’s dominance of all regions. It is consistent with
the neoconservative ideology of the US as the “indispensable” and “exceptional”
country entitled to world hegemony.

Russia and China
are in the way of US world hegemony. Unless the Wolfowitz doctrine is
abandoned, nuclear war is the likely outcome.

Paul
Craig Robertswas Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall
Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News
Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His
internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books
are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and The Failure of Laissez Faire
Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West and How America Was Lost.